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From the author of The Good Wife of Bath comes this brilliant recreation of the vibrant, optimistic but politically treacherous world of London's Restoration theatre, where we are introduced to the remarkable playwright Aphra Behn, now a feminist icon but then an anomaly, who gravitated to the...

English artist Alice Bulbeck and her twin brother, Edward, approach Axel Webb to find a lost Shakespeare play entitled The History of Cardenio. The play, performed only once for James I, has been lost for 400 years. It wasn’t included in the 1623 First Folio published by Shakespeare’s friends after his death. It is the only known play credited to William Shakespeare that has never been published. The question is, why?

1586 : Le duc de Guise, surnommé le Balafré, contrôle la moitié de la France. Henri III n'est même plus le roi de Paris où la Ligue fait la loi, tandis que le huguenot Henri de Navarre conduit une guerre d'escarmouches dans l'ouest du royaume. Décidée à mettre un terme à cette guerre, Catherine de Médicis part rencontrer Navarre, héritier légitime selon la loi salique, pour le convaincre de se convertir. Mais est-ce la véritable raison de ce voyage ? Pourquoi a-t-elle choisi Michel de Montaigne, l'ami d'Henri de Navarre, comme messager ?

Évidemment, Pardaillan père et fils se sont retrouvés et reconnus. Une fois encore, les chevaliers de Pardaillan se montrent dépourvus d'avidité, eux pour qui la réussite n'est jamais matérielle. Dans ce nouvel épisode, Michel Zévaco nous brosse un tableau attachant du fils de Pardaillan qui fait honneur à son père. En France, la menace pèse toujours sur Henri IV et un certain Ravaillac entre en scène et le trésor de la Fausta reste introuvable.

Nous sommes à Paris en 1609, Henri IV règne sur la France pacifiée. Le chevalier de Pardaillan, qui n'a pas retrouvé son fils, rencontre un jeune truand, Jehan-le-Brave, en qui il ne tarde pas à reconnaître l'enfant de Fausta. Or, Jehan-le-Brave, qui ignore tout de ses origines, est amoureux de Bertille de Saugis, fille naturelle d'Henri IV.

Nous sommes donc toujours en 1588, sous le règne d'Henri III, en lutte contre le duc de Guise et la Sainte ligue, le premier soutenu par Pardaillan, et le second par Fausta... Sans vous dévoiler les péripéties multiples et passionnantes de cette histoire, nous découvrirons que le duc de Guise et Henri III mourront tous deux (Zévaco, malgré son imagination, ne peut changer l'Histoire...), et que Pardaillan vaincra Fausta.

Fontainebleau, 1536. Francis II, dauphin of France, is dead. Poisoned. And the royal court believe Catherine de' Medici to be the murderer. With the heir apparent dead, her husband Henry will now be the next king of France - and her queen - and Catherine's family is known to stop at nothing to consolidate their power. But not yet queen and without an heir of her own, Catherine cannot be sure of securing her family's legacy. To ensure the conception of an heir, she will need to seek help from an unexpected ally: Nostradamus, the reclusive astronomer and purported seer.

The King's Painter by bestselling historian Alison Weir is an e-short and companion piece to the captivating fourth novel in the Six Tudor Queens series, Anna of Kleve: Queen of Secrets. 'There are certain matters that are better handled by ladies than by ministers or ambassadors' King Henry...

London 1666 - vier Tage lang verschlingt ein Feuer die Stadt. Im Armenviertel Southwark lebt der Straßenjunge Geoff, der mehr schlecht als recht versucht, seine Familie durchzubringen. Seine Schwester Jezebel, die sich in einer verruchten Spelunke als Schankmagd verdingt, birgt ein Geheimnis - und verschwindet eines Tages spurlos. Auf der Suche nach ihr stößt Geoff auf ein Netz aus Intrigen, Schuld und ungesühnter Rache - ein Gemisch, das schließlich den größten Brand der Geschichte entfachen sollte.

Sequel to “Tudor Secrets” from the point of view of Morgana Tudor. The only daughter of King Arthur II. Morgana Tudor’s journey to becoming a healer of legend.

Una misteriosa leyenda envuelve a la isla canaria de El Hierro. Sus habitantes guardan un secreto que les ha permitido enfrentarse a muchos peligros a lo largo de toda la historia. Sin embargo, la corona española está a punto de descubrir ese secreto. El general Gonzalo Baeza ha sido enviado allí para descubrirlo, pero se enamora de la nativa bimbache llamada Garza. Su historia de amor estará salpicada por el tráfico de esclavos, la conquista de El Hierro, la tragedia y el secreto mejor guardado de la isla.

In 1887, Isabel Bilton is the eldest of three daughters of a middle-class military family, growing up in a small garrison town. By 1891 she is the Countess of Clancarty, dubbed 'the peasant countess' by the press, and a member of the Irish aristocracy. Becoming Belle is the story of the four years in between, of Belle's rapid ascent and the people who tried to tear her down. Reimagined by a novelist at the height of her powers, Belle is an unforgettable woman. Set against an absorbing portrait of Victorian London, hers is a timeless rags-to-riches story a la Becky Sharpe.

Eine spannende, dramatische Geschichte über Liebe und Verrat, Heldentum und Opferbereitschaft, Niedertracht und Tot. Der Roman schildert außerdem die katastrophalen Lebensverhältnisse jener Zeit in Paris und London um 1790. Frankreich steht am Rande des Chaos der französischen Revolution und dem Niedergang der Aristokratie, während London sich in einem noch stabilen gesellschaftlichen Wandel wähnt.

Brought to you by Penguin. Ann Stilwell arrives in New York City, hoping to spend her summer working at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Instead, she is assigned to The Cloisters, a gothic museum and garden renowned for its collection of medieval and Renaissance art. There she is drawn into a...

Im 16. Jahrhundert ist das Wallis Schauplatz im Kampf um die Vorherrschaft in Europa. Inmitten von Krieg, Pest und der Jagd auf Hexen hat die Kräuterfrau Magdalena Capelani einen riskanten Beruf. Zwar wird ihr Wissen gebraucht, aber man traut ihr nicht: Wer sich mit den Kräften der Natur auskennt, steht mit dem Teufel im Bund. Und tatsächlich verfügt Magdalena über ein zweites Gesicht. Sie sieht den Tod ihres Bruders voraus, der in einer der Schlachten stirbt, in denen sich Kardinal Matthäus Schiner mit dem mächtigen Volkstribun Georg Supersaxo befehdet.

Renaissance Venice is a furnace of ideas and ambition. Artists flock here, not just for wealth and fame, but for revolutionary colour. Yet artist Giorgione 'Zorzo' Barbarelli's career hangs in the balance. Competition is fierce, and his debts are piling up. When Zorzo hears a rumour of a mysterious, other-worldly new pigment, brought to Venice by the richest man in Europe, he sets out to acquire the colour and secure his name in history. Winning a commission to paint a portrait of the man's wife, Sybille, Zorzo thinks he has found a way into the merchant's favour.

La famosa caza de brujas en Zugarramurdi, el auto de fe de Logroño de 1610, las cárceles secretas de la Inquisición, los bucaneros de La Española, los Hermanos de la Costa y la república libertaria que intentaron crear en la isla Tortuga, los corsarios vascos del mar Caribe… Joanes de...

The new novel from the author of the much-loved Girl with a Pearl Earring and Falling Angels. The Lady and the Unicorn tapestries are a set of six medieval tapestries. Beautiful, intricate and expertly made, they are also mysterious in their origin and meaning. Tapestries give an appearance of...

Firenze, domenica 26 aprile 1478. Durante una messa solenne celebrata dal cardinal Riario, i congiurati hanno levato il pugnale scagliandosi su Giuliano de' Medici, riducendolo in fin di vita. Per vendicarsi, Lorenzo spargerà molto altro sangue: la città, culla del Rinascimento, per lunghe settimane vedrà le sue strade orridamente tinte di rosso. Sfiancato dal dolore e dal rimorso, il Magnifico non potrà fare a meno di interrogarsi sullo sfacelo che ha devastato la sua vita, invidiata da tutti fino a poco prima. Perché Giuliano è morto? Quali colpe poteva aver commesso?

England, 1613. At the dazzling but brutal court of King James I, politician and philosopher Francis Bacon, the cleverest person in England, the inventor of the modern world, has a fight to survive. A life-threatening alliance of his enemies has formed around the king's exquisite but noxious lover, Carr. Bacon, always the outsider and the plotter, goes to his friend, James' neglected queen, and together they come up with a plan.